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  • If they remain US citizens, they will have to pay US capital gains tax on the sale of their home in the place they now live. They’d also be liable for US federal income tax. This would be on top of whatever taxes they’re liable for in the country they moved to.

    If they have renounced their citizenship and are no longer resident in the US, then they’re (broadly) no longer liable for US taxes, including US capital gains on the sale of their home.

    Renouncing citizenship is expensive, but massively cheaper than the taxes they’d pay as non-resident US citizens. I’d assume their income had come in under the threshold or something, so the matter only came up when they wanted to sell their home.



  • Nothing is more delicious to conservatives than a small, powerless group who do not fit into the so-called social norms to attack as a scapegoat. Perfect for distracting their supporters from all of the fuckery and wanton neglect that conservative parties pursue, and perfect for whipping up emotional fervour in the mind of those who cling to conservatism out of fear of difference.

    Other groups & causes which conservatives tend to target may willing to jettison the needs of a tiny group for their own ends if they can get their own ends met, and fracturing solidarity is incredibly useful, if not essential, to conservative goals.

    As such, people who are seeking treatment for gender dysphoria are the perfect target for the GOP to rail against.















  • The edge of the bed?

    Otherwise, them fancy padded ones are the only type narrow enough for jackets unless I use children’s hangers.

    The kind with clips on a bar are great for trousers/shirts & ideally the kind where the bar can swing out & with soft lining on the clips.

    Prefer if the head (or hook bit?) swivels, but wire hangers are easy to bend & have other uses so I like to keep some to hand. They can also be bent to fit my jackets & padded with old cloths if necessary.


  • Twitter & Reddit have both been incredibly useful platforms for raising awareness of all kinds of issues and causes which are anathema to conservative goals. People have been exposed to ideas & events without ever needing to seek those out.

    The right-wing failed at creating their own networks and have nothing to offer to ordinary people besides paranoia, so the next best thing is neutralising avenues of enlightening information.

    Elon’s demented & clueless, but he & Huffman are very useful idiots for the rest of their class.



  • Used to run into this with comments posted on some subreddits, so suspect they had more stringent rate-limiting or other anti-spam measures than other subreddits.

    Doing several passes can help, but often one has to edit the stragglers manually. Deletion never seemed to pose such issues, unless the comment was in a locked thread.

    Further, because PDS operates by running through all of your posts & comments according to different criteria (new, hot, controversial etc. by day, week, month, year & all time), it will try to edit some content several times as it progresses, and consequently run foul of anti-spam measures. Accordingly, it can help to make an edit text which uses Markup syntax to be hidden from later passes (16 carats preceding whatever you’d like to edit to works well).